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MurseFaneca

What happened to the Necropolisis?

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Or Necropoli, however that's spelled. At the end of WOTLK, only Archerus maintainted somewhat of a relevance. But the question is, what happened to the others spreaded all around Nortrend? I'm specificly interested in all the ones flying over Zul'drak and the ones under construction in Icecrown (Malykris and the other one you can see inside the Halls of Reflection). Did they fall down like Naxxramas and Naxxanar or are they just still flying but abandoned?

Posted May 29, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

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Hedas•

As a flying building I'm assuming that there was something magical keeping it flying, however what exactly that is, is not known as far as I know.

If I were to give my headcanon, I'd say that there is probably some shard or something similar that keeps it flying. Shard is probably created with a massive buff from the Lich King, seeing as making several huge necropolises float would probably take quite the power.

Going on that, my answer is that they are probably still floating. I don't really think that they would "run out of power" and then drop. It doesn't seem like magic works like that in Warcraft, seeing as Archerus still flies. It could be that if the Lich King was fully killed, that the power that held them would be broken, and would then drop, but it seems that Bolvar will probably stay as Lich King till times end, so we'll probably never see that.

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RobotDoctorRobotHead of the K.T Fan Club•

Well, presumably they were taken over by the Argent Crusade/Ebon Blade and either crashed or just being watched over.

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Elcactus•

They'll probably justify not having more of them in the world by saying they need undead to run them and there's not enough Ebon Blade to fully man each one.

It would be cool to match the Legion's ships with a fleet of Necropoli though.

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tageytajit#1465•

The Necropoli in Icecrown and Icecrown Citadel aren't finished. In Zul'drak, through a quest chain you destroy one (iirc) and the other one is heavily sabotaged.

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MurseFanecaOPOrcslayer•

Do you remember the specific ones that got rekt and the sabotaged one? Im making a backstory for my RP necromancer

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kezdog92•

You disguise your self as a scourge agent (probably not a hard thing for a good necromancer) and slowly sabotage one of them. I think it was Voltarus. http://wow.gamepedia.com/Voltarus. The one that got smashed by the Drakkari was Kolramas.

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tageytajit#1465•

Don't quote me on this, as it's been years since I've quested in Zul'drak (personally hate it) but I believe Voltarus is the one that is sieged and "destroyed" through the quest chain and Zeramas is Drakuru's headquarters, which is sabotaged. But again, don't quote me on this.

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MurseFanecaOPOrcslayer•

Ty for the help mate

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M6GA•

Now that Stromgarde belongs to the Ebon Blade it would be cool if they rebuilt it using parts from Naxx, into a Death Knight capital city.

Calling it now, future expansion: Class Cities

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HeWhoReddits•

Class cities? We don't even have all the racial cities. Or any new real capitals since WotLK. Cata was updated existing, same as Legion. MoP had one building as a capital, and WoD Shattrath got scrapped for garrisons.

I'm pretty salty over it honestly.

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lastelite3•

No idea but the Ebon Blade should take them over

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Japjer•

The ones still afloat are probably just going to be manned with soldiers and used as lookout posts or something. No reason to not gut them out and just use them.

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MisanthropeX•

I imagine they are still flying and operated by the scourge under Bolvar's control.

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